Home Office

Passports

Miss Anne McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time is taken to renew an existing passport and issue a new one.

James Brokenshire: A straightforward renewal application, where the customers provide the required supporting documentation at the outset, is usually dealt with within three weeks. Expected turnaround times for applications made in the UK and on a country by country basis for overseas applications are set out on www.gov.uk.

Passports

Jessica Morden: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) standard passport applications, (b) fast-track applications and (c) premium service applications were processed in (i) 1 January 2012 to 31 May 2012, (ii) 1 January 2013 to 31 May 2013 and (iii) 1 January 2014 o 31 May 2014.

James Brokenshire: The information requested is shown in the following table. This also includes data up until 30 June for each year.   



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Pamela Nash: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average time between applying for and the issue of passports for residents of (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (b) Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011, (iv) 2012, (v) 2013 and (vi) 2014 to date.

James Brokenshire: Her Majesty's Passport Office hold data at a UK level and information is not held in the format requested for points (a) to (c) above. On point (d), the information is set out in the Performance section of the Annual Report and Accounts presented to Parliament on a financial year basis: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/identity-and-passport-service-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118751/ips-annual-report-2012.pdfhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ips-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-passport-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014

Passports

Stephen Pound: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports that her Department has returned to applicants in the last year have gone missing; and if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of returning passports to applicants by (a) second-class post, (b) first-class post and (c) recorded delivery.

James Brokenshire: Since Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO) starting collecting this data in February 2014, 62 cases of passports wrongly delivered or packages damaged on delivery have been reported and investigated by HMPO and this has resulted in passports being cancelled. Subject to the outcome of the investigation, a new passport is issued to the passport holder. This is 0.0017% of the total passports issued for this period. New passports are sent to customers by secure courier in the UK and overseas, any expired passports submitted with applications are returned to customers in the UK using second class post and overseas by secure courier which the customer pays for. In the 2013-14 financial year securely delivering new passports in the UK cost £17 million, overseas the cost was £6.25 million. It is not possible to identify separately the cost of returning expired passports to customers in the UK.

Immigrants: Detainees

Mr Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will include in the Quarterly Immigration Statistics figures for the numbers of (a) Rule 35 applications, (b) detainees released automatically as a result of Rule 35 applications, (c) Rule 35 applications refused on exceptional grounds and (d) Rule 35 applications subsequently escalated through the Home Office Enforcement management claim, by immigration removal centre.

James Brokenshire: Migration Statistics, part of Home Office Statistics, is responsible for producing the Quarterly Immigration Statistics and regularly reviews the content. The inclusion of new datasets depends on several factors, including: availability of the data; data quality; public interest; work capacity of Migration Statistics.

Ministry of Justice

Domestic Violence Protection Orders: Greater Manchester

Mr David Nuttall: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for a domestic violence protection order were made to the Bury and Rochdale Magistrates' Court in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available.

Mr Shailesh Vara: Applications for domestic violence protection orders in the Greater Manchester area are heard at Manchester, Bolton and Oldham Magistrates’ Courts. They are not heard at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates’ Court and it is not possible to seperately identify those from Bury or Rochdale.